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Micron Technology tops the options market's negative-flow list this week. The semiconductor giant leads both sides of the ledger, drawing the heaviest put and call bets in the US market over the past seven days. That…
Ferrari opens the week today. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below last year's quarter. That is a weak-fit signal, but it points to caution heading into the…
Howmet Aerospace stands out in today's analyst activity. The company received an upgrade, with the consensus target price jumping from $296.29 to $306.75. That is a notable move for an aerospace components maker that…
Open-market filings over the past month show a clear split in US boardroom conviction. Buying is clustering in financial services and housing. Selling is heaviest in high-flying tech names. Corebridge Financial tops…
Short sellers stepped up bets across homebuilders and a trio of distressed names last week, with DFH leading the charge among movers. Dream Finders Homes saw short interest jump 9.5 percentage points in seven days to…
The week's biggest earnings cluster sits in the auto sector. Ferrari reports today, with Austrian car registration data running 75% below the same quarter last year. That is a weak-fit lead, but the direction is hard…
Options markets are sending mixed signals heading into a heavy auto earnings week. Moderna stands out. The biotech carries an 88% probability of joining the MSCI World index, according to ORTEX's Index Rebalance Radar.…
The week's most closely watched earnings come from the auto sector. RACE (Ferrari) reports today, 3 November. Austrian car registration data, which leads Ferrari's revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below the same…
India's vehicle registration data told a stark story in October. New car registrations fell 84% year-on-year to 85,038 units, down from 546,725 a year earlier, according to Vahan data. Goods-vehicle registrations…
Howmet Aerospace grabbed the most notable call of the day. Analysts upgraded the stock and lifted the consensus target to $296. The prior target stood at $307. Despite the lower number, the upgrade itself shifts the…
UBER President and COO Andrew Gordon MacDonald filed two open-market purchases in early September, disclosing that he bought a combined 70,000 shares for roughly $5.3 million at prices around $75 to $76. That is a…
Short sellers stepped up pressure on a homebuilder and an AI chip maker this week, while Hertz remains a crowd favourite for bears. Dream Finders Homes saw the sharpest move. Short interest hit 33.8% of float, up 26%…
The dominant story this week is China. ETFs focused on Chinese equities pulled in $10.5B over the past seven days, with a flow imbalance of 72. That is the second-largest geography inflow in absolute terms, behind only…
CoreWeave hit a new all-time low on Monday. The AI cloud provider counts Alphabet and Microsoft among its largest customers, making the slide a wider signal on AI infrastructure spending appetite. Separately, D-Wave…
Options markets are flashing two sharp signals today. Both stand well outside their recent norms. NWL put/call ratio crashed to 0.24 on Monday. That is nearly four standard deviations below its 20-day mean of 0.67. The…
Ferrari kicks off Tuesday when the Italian carmaker reports for Q3 2026. ORTEX alt data on Austrian car registrations, which leads Ferrari's revenue by 22 days, is running 75% below the same quarter last year. That is…
Evercore ISI analyst Mark Mahaney downgraded RDDT from Buy to Hold on Monday. His target price fell from $265 to $120. That is a 55% cut in one move. Reddit carries short interest of 15% of free float, so bearish…
Peconic Partners filed a Schedule 13G on November 2, disclosing a 6.32% stake in AMC Entertainment as of September 30, 2026. The filing is passive, meaning Peconic has not signalled activist intent. Stakes are as last…
Short sellers are intensifying bets against a familiar set of names. Fresh ORTEX data shows HTZ and WOLF sitting among the most squeezed stocks on the market right now. Hertz Global Holdings has 73.4% of its free float…
Two private equity firms are circling GPN in a potential $40 billion takeover, the biggest deal story of the day. That kind of bid would be one of the largest PE transactions in fintech history. FIS is also named in…
